Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Creating Shape Objects

When you create a shape, you define its dimensions by defining the size of an invisible, rectangular box, called a bounding box. Whereas a rectangle fits exactly inside its bounding box, other shapes are circumscribed within theirs. When you select a shape, its bounding box appears with six handles, small squares you can grab and drag to change the dimensions of the box—and thereby, the shape it contains.

You can also create open and closed polygons and Bezier shapes. These techniques are covered in later sections.

To create a shape:

1.	In the Title Designer window toolbox, select a shape tool (Figure 12.62): Figure 12.62. Select one of the shape tools. In this example, the ellipse tool is selected. Rectangle